Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

Among the Last Residents, their playground: Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

Venerable architecture of the period, slated for destruction, Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street

Among the Last Residents, Mother and daughter, East 173rd Street

Large, four foot, poster on the side of a building.

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

Teens clean up the rubble in order to create a neighborhood garden.

South of Cross Bronx Expressway, decals belie the truth of destruction for suburban commuters.

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

She had been left behind when her family and friends moved out of the neighborhood

Shop keeper in the next-to-last store on the block. Six months later the store was bulldozed.

Among the last residents, [an] African-American boy standing in rubble, his "neighborhood," with abandoned buildings in the background.

Paulina in front of the Social Club before it got demolished.

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

One of the high school students told me she was going to be a dental assistant. The other two said they wanted to be models.

South Bronx site of the 1980 "People's Convention" in opposition to the Democratic Party's nominating convention downtown

Candido with neighborhood kids

When I looked for her to give her the picture, her building had burned and she had moved

Mother and daughter pause in the ruins, which is still their home, Claremont Parkway.